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Palawan, Voices from the lost frontier

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In March 2006, the Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a revitalization of mining nation-wide. The future of Palawan, known as the Philippines’ “Last Frontier” is now under serious threat. The island was declared a “Man and Biosphere Reserve” by the UNESCO and it is also the home of vanishing and isolated indigenous communities. Despite the numerous policies and laws establishing the entire province as a protected area, Palawan is becoming one of the most attractive more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on February 25, 2010

AREU -- Student Politics in Afghanistan

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In Afghanistan today, student politics moves between two poles: patronage and rebellion. Student politics in Afghanistan has not been the object of much scholarly attention, but in the 1960-70s it had an important influence on the development of political parties, which in turn shaped Afghanistan’s entry into mass politics in the late 1970-80s. The universities were where many of the political movements that became protagonists in the civil wars and today’s political scene started taking shape. more...

Added by Jay Lamey on February 24, 2010

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Community Development Journal Advance Access published February 9, 2010

Added by Eswarappa Kasi on February 21, 2010

Community led Heritage Tourism

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We are developing models for using heritage based tourism as a vehicle of development for communities rich in intangible cultural heritage. It is a ground reality that there is often appropriation of tourism business by outsiders. Further, it has been observed that in some of the heritage tourism destinations indigenous people become merely a part of an exhibition mechanism and have little say in the way they are represented. Our goal is to make community an more...

Added by Ananya Bhattacharya on February 18, 2010

The repression of ethnic minority activists in Myanmar

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This report details some of the government’s repressive tactics against ethnic minority activists who opposed the 2008 constitution during the referendum, which included arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, and even extrajudicial executions of activists. It also describes the government’s intensified efforts with elections approaching, to repress its critics and challengers among ethnic minority communities.

Added by Zunia on February 18, 2010

Child Labor, School Attendance, and Indigenous Households: Evidence from Mexico

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This paper uses panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 in order to test several theoretical findings regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer programs on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA, in Mexico, we investigate the interaction between child labor and the indigenous status of the household and find that indigenous children showed a greater probability of working in 1997 and more...

Added by gabriella breglia on February 17, 2010

Religion versus Ethnicity as a Source of Mobilisation: Are There Differences?

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The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors. Most conflict analyses treat religion as a subset of ethnicity.This paper explores differences between these two identities, both by reviewing literature and by analysis of some recent surveys of perceptions in a number of conflict-affected countries.

Added by Zunia on February 12, 2010

Modern and mobile. The future of livestock production in Africa's drylands

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This book is about the critical role mobile livestock keeping plays in the economic prosperity of Africa’s drylands. Across East and West Africa an estimated 50 million livestock producers support their families, their communities, and a massive meat, skins and hides industry based on animals that are fed solely on natural dryland pastures. Where other land use systems are failing in the face of global climate change, mobile livestock keeping, or pastoralism, is generating huge national and more...

Added by Shambhu Ghatak on February 09, 2010

The Brus of Mizoram: Unequal, Unwanted and Unwelcome

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This report provide the findings along with appropriate recommendations on the causes of the displacement of the Brus in November 2009; the scale of destruction/damages/properties lost since November 2009; responsibility of the State (government) to protect and discharge constitutional responsibilities; the efforts of resolving the Bru crisis since 1997.

Added by Sonia Hossain on January 27, 2010

Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge, sponsored by Google

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The Google’s Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge (the “Contest”) is a skill contest where Entrants must submit an article to Wikipedia which is either originally written or consists of a translation for an existing Wikipedia article into Swahili. Google's goal with this contest is to increase the Swahili content on Wikipedia and to aid in the creation of relevant content for the communities, in the local language, of Tanzania and Kenya. The articles will be evaluated by judges, who will choose the more...

Added by John Daly on January 25, 2010

UN report paints grim picture of conditions of world’s indigenous peoples

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"The world’s 370 million indigenous peoples suffer from disproportionately, often exponentially, higher rates of poverty, health problems, crime and human rights abuses, the first ever United Nations study on the issue reported today, stressing that self-determination and land rights are vital for their survival."Startling figures contained in The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples include:In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per more...

Added by John Daly on January 16, 2010

Dr. Robert Chambers elaborates on Participatory GIS (PGIS) practice

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Dr. Robert Chambers from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, reflects on the intersection of participatory development and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and on the resulting good and bad practices. In the interview Dr. Chambers calls on practitioners and development agencies to ensure that good practice is put in place to avoid the repetition of the misuse of PRA (i.e. Participatory Rural Appraisal) done in the 80's and 90's.The interview has been transcribed and translated more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on January 16, 2010

On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories

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"This 51-page report calls on the regional government to grant legal recognition to Shabaks and Yazidis as distinct ethnic groups instead of imposing Kurdish identity on them and to ensure that they can participate in public affairs without fear of retribution. The report also calls on the central government in Baghdad to protect minorities at the local, provincial, and national levels, and to investigate killings and displacement of Assyrian Christians and deadly attacks against other more...

Added by Zunia on December 29, 2009

Ethnic Fertility Differentials in Vietnam and Their Proximate Determinants

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"This paper explores proximate determinants of fertility across ethnic groups using a new classification system for ethnicity in Vietnam based on poverty indicators, location, and degree of assimilation of ethnic groups.The analysis suggests that population policies will need to extend beyond provision of contraception and abortion services to address the question of early childbearing among some minority groups."

Added by Zunia on December 22, 2009

EASA2010: Crisis and imagination-Call for Papers

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Panel (W076) Title: Anthropological reflections on crisis and imagination: a field viewConvenorsEswarappa Kasi (University of Hyderabad) emailRobin Oakley (Dalhousie University) emailMail All ConvenorsShort AbstractIn order to depict anthropological moorings, we invite scholars and academicians working in the themes and perspectives of anthropological reflections of crisis and imagination to contribute their experiences with the learned colleagues of EASA.Long AbstractOur panel aims to draw an more...

Added by Dr ESWARAPPA KASI on December 21, 2009

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